Essays & Insights

magazines under the microscope

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Essays in Magazine Media, No 5, December 2012 Richard Sharpe The 1930s were a particularly turbulent decade. The year before

Essays in Magazine Media, No 4, December 2012 Andrew Calcutt Hello! was launched in Britain in 1988. Then, as now,

Essays in Magazine Media, No 3, December 2012 Andrew Calcutt Compared to Joseph Addison, writer/editor/publisher of The Spectator, Charles Dickens

Essays in Magazine Media, No 1, November 2012 Andrew Calcutt Take any picture of Kate Moss. Note the physical attributes

Why the C-word won’t work for commercial magazine publishers Andrew Calcutt, 8 January 2010 ‘Let’s make it a community’. To publishers wondering

10-4-2010 Richard Sharpe’s 10 predictions for UK magazines in 2010 1 There will be plenty of launches despite the recession. These

Mark Beachill, 14 December 2009 This essay looks at the en-gendered nature of magazines. It assesses changes in the

Andrew Calcutt, November 2009 Summary: Magazines are mercantile: they originated as accessories to market expansion before turning

Andrew Calcutt, October 2009 Summary: Magazines, perhaps more than newspapers, have always offset their reporting of the outside

Richard Sharpe, November 2006 Summary: Client publishing, customer magazines, contract publishing – it goes by various names but the reality